Links summary 10/30/2006

• Microsoft (Europe) is hosting an EU Innovation Day.  The speech group's own Miguel Dias will be there to talk about our Language Development Center.
• The first thing I thought of when I heard about Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) real-life struggle and recovery from a rare speech disorder was I wonder if he would have been able to use his voice to speak a foreign language.
• The University of Michigan's CLAIR group just announced a library of Perl modules for linguistic processing, including things like Tokenization, Summarization, LexRank, Biased LexRank, Document Clustering, Document Indexing, PageRank, Biased Pagerank, Web Graph Analysis, Bioinformatics Text Analysis, Political Science Text Analysis, Network Building, Power Law Distribution Analysis, Network Analysis and Computation (Watts-Strogatz Clustering Coefficient, Cosines, Random Walks), Tf, Idf.
• Did you know that the Oxford English Dictionary publishes an online list of new words?  I can't believe it took this long to add GIF and Wi-Fi.  By the way, what's "beer pong"?
• Bots are cool! add encarta@botmetro.net or smarterchild@hotmail.com to your Live Messenger contacts and start a conversation. Microsoft just bought Colloquis, a company that specializes in this, so expect to see more.